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MATH 2300 - Calculus 2 (Honors) - Fall 2015
Class Schedule
This calendar is the same as the calendar from the regular MATH 2300 course website; however, changes may occur throughout the term, and all activities, projects, etc., refer to those pertaining to the Honors course, not the regular course.
| Week | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
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| 1 | Aug 24 Introduction, review Integration by substitution (5.5) Activity: Review of basic antiderivatives Activity: Indefinite Integral dominoes | Aug 25 Activity: Mechanics of u/du subs Activity: Recognizing u/du subs | Aug 26 Integration by parts (5.6) EWA 5.5 due tonight | Aug 27 HW1 due Project 1: Trig integrals | Aug 28 Integration by parts - continued |
| 2 | Aug 31 Trigonmetric substitutions (5.7) EWA 5.6 due tonight | Sep 1 Trigonometric integrals (5.7) EWA 5.7 Trig integrals due tonight | Sep 2 Activity: Partial fractions | Sep 3 HW2 due Project 2: Activity: Tables, computer algebra systems and alternate solutions (5.8) EWA 5.7 Trig substitution due tonight | Sep 4 Partial fractions (5.7) EWA 5.7 Partial fractions tonight |
| 3 | Sep 7 Labor Day | Sep 8 Hyperbolic Trigonometry EWA 5.8 Integration tables and CAS due tonight | Sep 9 Improper integrals using limits (5.10) | Sep 10 HW3 due Project 3: Comparison tests for improper integrals | Sep 11 Improper integrals by comparison (5.10) and Activity: Choosing a technique of integration |
| 4 | Sep 14 Areas of regions (6.1) EWA 5.10 Improper integrals due tonight | Sep 15 Volumes of solids of revolution (6.2) | Sep 16 Volumes of solids by slicing (6.2) EWA 6.1 Areas due tonight | Sep 17 HW 4 due Project 4: Area and Volume practice | Sep 18 Arclength and average value (6.4 and 6.5) EWA 6.2 Volumes due tonight |
| 5 | Sep 21 Exam 1 HUMN 190 | Sep 22 Work and pressure (6.6) EWA 6.4 and 6.5 both due tonight | Sep 23 Work and pressure, continued | Sep 24 HW5 due Project 5: Applications of integration | Sep 25 Moments and center of mass (6.6) EWA 6.6 part 1 due tonight |
| 6 | Sep 28 Sequences (8.1) EWA 6.6 part 2 due tonight | Sep 29 Sequences activities | Sep 30 Series, convergence of series, divergence test (8.2) EWA 8.1 due tonight | Oct 1 HW6 due Project 6: Geometric series | Oct 2 Geometric series (8.2) |
| 7 | Oct 5 Integral test activity EWA 8.2 due tonight | Oct 6 p-series and the integral test (8.3) | Oct 7 Comparison test discovery (8.3) | Oct 8 HW7 due Project 7: Comparison test details EWA 8.3 p-series and integral test due tonight | Oct 9 Comparison test practice, and Comparision tests: the big picture |
| 8 | Oct 12 Alternating series (8.4) EWA 8.3 Comparison tests due tonight | Oct 13 Absolute convergence/ratio test (8.4) | Oct 14 Root test EWA 8.4 Alternating series test due tonight | Oct 15 HW8 due Project 8: Series convergence practice EWA 8.4 Ratio test and absolute convergence due tonight | Oct 16 Review |
| 9 | Oct 19 Exam 2 HUMN 190 | Oct 20 Introduction to Taylor Polynomials | Oct 21 Taylor polynomials | Oct 22 HW9 due Project 9: recursive sequences | Oct 23 Power series (8.5) |
| 10 | Oct 26 Representing functions with power series (8.6) EWA 8.5 Power series due tonight | Oct 27 Making new power series from geometric series | Oct 28 Taylor series (8.7) EWA 8.6 Power series representation of functions due tonight | Oct 29 HW10 due Project 10: Building new Taylor Series from old | Oct 30 Taylor series, continued EWA 8.7 Taylor Series Part 1 due tonight |
| 11 | Nov 2 Error in Taylor series approximations (8.7) Click here for alternate statement of Taylor's inequality EWA 8.7 Taylor Series Part 2 due tonight | Nov 3 Taylor Series matching activity Error in Taylor series approximations, continued | Nov 4 Taylor polynomial remainder estimate practice | Nov 5 HW11 due Project 11: Taylor Series application, area under a Gaussian curve EWA 8.7-8.8 Taylor Series Remainder Estimate due tonight | Nov 6 Differential equations and direction fields activity (7.1 and 7.2) |
| 12 | Nov 9 Euler's Method activity EWA 7.1 Modeling with Differential Equations due tonight | Nov 10 Euler's method (7.2) | Nov 11 Separable equations (7.3) | Nov 12 HW12 due Project 12: Toricelli's law and separable differential equations EWA 7.2 Direction fields (slope fields) and Euler's method | Nov 13 Growth and decay (7.4) EWA 7.3 Separable equations due tonight |
| 13 | Nov 16 Exam 3HUMN 190 | Nov 17 The logistic equation (7.5) EWA 7.4 Growth and Decay due tonight | Nov 18 Series solutions to differential equations | Nov 19 HW13 due Project 13: SIR Model EWA 7.5 Logistic Equation due tonight | Nov 20 Parametric equations (1.7) Parametric matching activity |
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| 14 | Nov 30 Calculus of parametric equations (10.1, 10.2 (partly)) EWA 1.7 Parametric equations due tonight | Dec 2 Calculus of parametric equations, continued | Dec 2 Polar coordinates (Appendix H.1) EWA Calculus of parametric equations due tonight | Dec 3 HW14 due Project 14: Polar Coordinate practice | Dec 4 Area and arclength in polar coordinates (Appendix H.2) EWA Polar coordinates tonight |
| 15 | Dec 7 Area and arclength in polar coordinates, continued | Dec 8 Mixing Problems EWA Area and arclength in polar coordinates tonight | Dec 9 Review Sheet I | Dec 10 HW15 due Project 15: review | Dec 11 Review Sheet II |
| Dec 14 | Dec 15 Final exam 7:30 am - 10:00 amHUMN 190 | Dec 16 | Dec 17 | Dec 18 | |